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8-letter words containing p, r, o

  • eutropic — of, relating to or characterized by eutropy
  • evesdrop — Archaic form of eavesdrop.
  • exceptor — a person who excepts or takes exception (to something)
  • exocarps — Plural form of exocarp.
  • exophora — Reference in a text or utterance to something external to it, which is only fully intelligible in terms of information about the extralinguistic situation.
  • exospore — The outer layer of the membrane in some spores.
  • expiator — One who makes expiation or atonement.
  • exploder — Someone or something that explodes.
  • explored — Simple past tense and past participle of explore.
  • explorer — A person who explores an unfamiliar area; an adventurer.
  • explores — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of explore.
  • exported — Simple past tense and past participle of export.
  • exporter — One who, or that which, exports: especially a person who or organization that exports or sells goods made in one country for delivery in another country.
  • exposure — The state of being exposed to contact with something.
  • expresso — Alternative spelling of espresso.
  • eyedrops — Plural form of eyedrop.
  • fipronil — A broad-spectrum insecticide that disrupts the insect's central nervous system.
  • fire pot — the part of a household furnace in which the fire is made.
  • firepole — A fixed metal pole, installed in a multi-storey building or firehouse, that allows the occupants to quickly descend floors.
  • firestop — any object built into a building frame to block a concealed hollow space through which a fire might pass from one part of the building to another.
  • flaperon — a control surface functioning both as a flap and as an aileron.
  • flopover — a continuous, vertical movement of a television image picture caused by interference in reception or by improper tuning.
  • floppers — air plant (def 2).
  • floppier — Comparative form of floppy.
  • fog drip — water falling to the ground from trees, especially conifers, that have collected the moisture from fog.
  • footrope — the portion of the boltrope to which the lower edge of a sail is sewn.
  • for loop — (programming)   A loop construct found in many procedural languages which repeatedly executes some instructions while a condition is true. In C, the for loop is written in the form; for (INITIALISATION; CONDITION; AFTER) STATEMENT; where INITIALISATION is an expression that is evaluated once before the loop, CONDITION is evaluated before each iteration and the loop exits if it is false, AFTER is evaluated after each iteration, and STATEMENT is any statement, including a compound statement within braces "..", that is executed if CONDITION is true. For example: int i; for (i = 0; i < 10; i++) { printf("Hello\n"); } prints "Hello" 10 times. Other languages provide a more succinct form of "for" statement specifically for iterating over arrays or lists. E.g., the Perl code, for my $task (@tasks) { postpone($task); } calls function "postpone()" repeatedly, setting $task to each element of the "@tasks" array in turn. This avoids introducing temporary index variables like "i" in the previous example. The for loop is an alternative way of writing a while loop that is convenient because the loop control logic is collected in a single place. It is also closely related to the repeat loop.
  • foredeep — an elongate sediment-filled sea-floor depression bordering an island arc or other orogenic belt.
  • forepart — the first, front, or early part.
  • forepast — bygone
  • forepaws — Plural form of forepaw.
  • forepeak — the extreme forward part of the interior of a hull (opposed to afterpeak).
  • foreplan — to plan in advance
  • foreplay — sexual stimulation of one's partner, usually as a prelude to sexual intercourse.
  • forepole — Also called spile, spill. any of a number of boards or timbers driven forward on top of a set to protect miners lengthening a tunnel from falling debris.
  • foreship — the prow or forepart of a ship
  • foretops — Plural form of foretop.
  • forspeak — to bewitch
  • forspend — to exhaust financially
  • forspent — worn out; exhausted.
  • fourplay — Quad play.
  • fourplex — quadplex.
  • frampold — bad-tempered; peevish
  • freeport — a village on SW Long Island, in SE New York.
  • freepost — Freepost is a system in Britain which allows you to send mail to certain organizations without paying for the postage. 'Freepost' is written on the envelope as part of the address.
  • frog pad — a rubber or leather cushion fixed to a leather sole and fitted under a horseshoe to reduce shock to a horse's foot
  • front up — to pay (money) at the beginning of a business arrangement
  • frostnip — The first stage of frostbite.
  • galloper — One who gallops.
  • gapeworm — a nematode worm, Syngamus trachea, that causes gapes.
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